Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York. As of March 2010, Citigroup is the third largest bank holding company in the United States by total assets, after Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. Read More

Architect

Description • Develop a thorough understanding of Global Consumer's Rainbow Reference Architecture, Technology Standards and Infrastructure Components.• Drive the Infrastructure Capacity Planning for Distributed and Mainframe Platform Components, Storage and Branch Network for Global Consumer projects.• Drive the Infrastructure Platform and Storage Design for Global Consumer projects, creating Design Charters, Blueprints and Design Approach artifacts.• Partner with other Citi Architecture & Engineering and Technology Infrastructure Operations Teams in validating the platform capacity/architecture/designs and validating that the solutions are built and deployed as designed, to spec.• Partner with peer Architects and drive the end-to-end performance for the designed solution.• Actively provide Infrastructure Architecture and Consulting services for current and future Global Consumer Initiatives.

• Drive vendor or product selection or bake-off efforts, drive benchmarks and product/portfolio rationalization efforts in the Infrastructure Platform Domain.• Identify and drive Platform Optimization and Re-platforming opportunities.• Identify opportunities to optimize current solutions and perform technical analysis and/or provide "hands on" technical support, on an "as needed" basis, to troubleshoot problems related to poorly performing systems in production and test environments.• Be detail oriented and deliverable focused. Should be prepared to work extra hours (including weekends) on an as needed basis with relatively short notice to meet deliverables.

• This position requires a Bachelors Degree or higher and a minimum of 12+ years of Information Technology experience, ideally in Financial Services, with specialty in the area of Enterprise-scale Infrastructure Capacity, Design and Implementations• Excellent verbal & written communication, inter-personal, influencing, facilitation and presentation skills are essential to succeed in this position.• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to provide "hands on" technical support and analysis on as needed basis.• Delivery focused, hands-on, data driven, detail oriented approach with clear accountability for performance and execution is required.• Team player, willing to work extra hours, including weekends, as needed.